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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ki·no n. The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.
 Note:The chief supply is from an East Indian leguminous tree, the Pterocarpus Marsupium. Other sources are the African Pterocarpus erinaceus, the tropical American sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), and several Australian Eucalypti. See Botany bay kino, under Botany bay, Gum butea, under Gum, and Eucalyptus.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bot·a·ny Bay A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.
 Note: Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.
 Botany Bay kino Med., an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus.
 Botany Bay resin Med., a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass tree (Xanthorrhæa hastilis).